{"id":722,"date":"2021-08-18T18:13:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/?p=722"},"modified":"2021-08-18T18:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:43:48","slug":"mongodump-unrecognized-field-snapshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/?p=722","title":{"rendered":"Mongodump &#8211; Unrecognized field &#8216;snapshot&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently upgraded my mongo instance on my laptop and I was trying to do a backup of my mongo database on a remote server. I tried using my usual monodump commands but saw some strange error:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>Failed: error reading collection: Failed to parse: { find: \"Files\", skip: 0, snapshot: true, $readPreference: { mode: \"secondaryPreferred\" }, $db: \"app_db\" }. Unrecognized field 'snapshot'.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On some googling I found out that this error can happen due to difference between the Mongo server version and the Mongo client version. <a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/56656925\/mongoexport-error-failed-failed-to-parse-unrecognized-field-snapshot\">This stackoverflow article<\/a> explains the problem and the solution to it as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end I simply had to add &#8220;&#8211;forceTableScan&#8221; to my mongodump command to get it to work properly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently upgraded my mongo instance on my laptop and I was trying to do a backup of my mongo database on a remote server. I tried using my usual monodump commands but saw some strange error: Failed: error reading collection: Failed to parse: { find: &#8220;Files&#8221;, skip: 0, snapshot: true, $readPreference: { mode: &#8220;secondaryPreferred&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,74],"tags":[75,76,77],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-database","category-mongo-database","tag-mongo","tag-mongodb","tag-mongodump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberaka.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}